2009 Redux Become a Test Pilot: Mozilla Wants Your Help To Make Firefox Better If you want to help Mozilla to make Firefox better but you are not a developer, here is your chance. Earlier this year, Mozilla announced the launch of Test Pilot, the organization's new distributed usability lab. Test pilots will be enlisted in various usability tests and will be some of the first to see some of Mozilla's ideas for new user… Frederic Lardinois View comments
2009 Redux Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data This week ReadWriteWeb will run a series of posts detailing what we think are the five biggest, most cutting-edge Web trends to come out of 2009. We'll be posting one trend analysis per day. Then at the end of the week we'll publish a major update to our standard presentation about web technology trends. The first major Web trend we're looking at… Richard MacManus View comments
Startups Digg's Rose, Adelson Back Crowdsourcing Startup 3Crowd Digg and Revision3 co-founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson have provided crowdsourcing startup 3Crowd Technologies and its founder Barrett Lyon with an early Christmas present of funding. Lyon says the angel investors join Storm Ventures and Greenwich Technology Associates to "give 3Crowd the shot in the arm it needs to take off," likely sometime… Chris Cameron View comments
Events Guide ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 26 December 2009 It's the last week of 2009 and time look ahead to all the conferences and events you could be attending in 2010. As always, you can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly feature here on… imported_1 View comments
2009 Redux Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender? As machines learn to understand what the web means, what perspective will they understand it from? Who is teaching them? "Objective" descriptions of the world and the relationships in it can cause real problems, particularly for people with little power in those relationships. How will the emerging Semantic Web understand relationships and… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments